[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8555]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 EDUCATION FUNDING CUTS WORTHY CONTEST

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, again this year the repeat State 
champions from my neighborhood high school, U.S. Grant, has had another 
outstanding national contest finishing second against the 1,500 
students competing in the ``We the People'' Constitutional contest.
  The Grant High School performance has a simple formula for success: 
Hard work, dedicated teachers, outstanding students and parents all 
joined together in a creative program. They demonstrate year in and 
year out what works in education.
  I am sad to note that for some inexplicable reason the national 
program that inspired such interest in learning about our Constitution 
is absent from the President's budget, eliminating $29.4 million in 
civic education from the Department of Education. I hope we will be 
able to correct that deficiency. This is exactly the type of program 
and the positive reinforcement that the champions from Grant High 
School and students from across America deserve.

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